How To Stop Thinking About Work (Even When The Workday Is Over)

1. Channel Your Energy Into Something Else

The point is to channel your attention into some sort of task that’s demanding of your mental energy, but isn’t at all related to your work. This is effective for a couple of reasons. First is that it gets you into the habit of switching your brain away from your career demands. “Your habit system only learns a new habit when you perform an action, not when you don’t. So you cannot create a habit to avoid an action.” Secondly, our brains aren’t that great at multitasking. And, while research has shown that the human brain actually can keep two goals or tasks in mind at one time, if one inspires too many unrelated thoughts, your frontal lobe will lose track of one of them (which in this case, is hopefully your work to-do list).

2. Create A Plan For Tomorrow

3. Set Screen Time Limits For Yourself

4. Limit Your Venting